Jan 12, 2009 - 9:17 PM
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On my way to work yesterday my usually reliable yota started acting odd. The car has very little power almost feels like I am running on 2 cylinders. The 7afe literally sounds like a subaru wrx box engine. As I am accelerating the engine feels like its working fine then drops in power then jumps in power. It died on me and woulnt start up so i pushed it into a parking spot on my way home from work.
Sounded like a combustion problem to me so i got some new spark plugs replaced them. The engine started up but limped home. The old spark plugs looked like i was running rich, lotta carbon, but not too bad. The weirdest part is that the check engine light is not on. There is spark on all four wires and i wasnt reving the engine very high the last couple of days. Im stumped and dont really want to take it in to the shop. N E ideas? Injectors, destributor, timing belt??? Any help would be appreciated , -nick -------------------- ![]() |
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Jan 14, 2009 - 9:17 PM
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QUOTE trdproven Posted Today, 06:12 PM I thought you changed the plugs the first time? i think he might have meant wires... QUOTE "The wires looked fine but one must have been bad."
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SpoonR530 Feels like the engine is running on 3 cylinders Jan 12, 2009 - 9:17 PM
LewFX did you change the plug wires as well, that happen... Jan 12, 2009 - 9:28 PM
soulshadow this sounds like a coil going bad. I would take a ... Jan 12, 2009 - 10:10 PM
SpoonR530 Good news....
Changed out the plugs and the car ... Jan 14, 2009 - 5:24 PM
trdproven I thought you changed the plugs the first time? Jan 14, 2009 - 6:12 PM![]() ![]() |
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